Just like with McDonald’s, we pored over the nutritional information provided by Wendy’s and selected the healthiest and least healthy items on their menu. Thisâ€”as many of you eager to point out in the last editionâ€”is a dicey endeavor at best. Fast food menus are not structured to optimize health and well being but to provide tasty, cheap, and, some would argue, semi-addictive food. When you eat at a fast food place, you’ve largely surrendered the notion of eating a healthy and balanced mealâ€”but that doesn’t mean you have to walk up to the counter and say “I’ll take everything with extra bacon and a side of enormous fries!”

Gathered below are the top and bottom picks off the Wendy’s menu. You’ll have a lot of trouble avoiding high sodium content at Wendy’s, but one thing we can say after reading the nutritional data over and over again is this: the really bad stuff at Wendy’s is really, really bad for you. The rest of the menu is pretty moderate compared to the artery abuse and waistline pounding you’ll find in the unhealthy menu.

Some days you just don’t have time to pack a lunch. Check out our top choices for avoiding post-lunchtime regrets. (If you’d rather see everything on one long page rather than use the snazzy AJAX gallery, click here.)

If you’re going to debate selecting things off this side of the menu, we’d suggest saving time and money in the long run by just packing a pound of bacon for lunch every day. Click on the image at left to see some of the worst foods at Wendy’s. (If you’d rather see everything on one long page rather than use the snazzy AJAX gallery, click here.)
As we said rather obviously in the McDonald’s edition, the key to keeping a fast food closer to healthy and further from the Baconator land is moderation. If reading over the last two editions of our fast food round up as made you realize how bad your weekly fast food intake really is, don’t beat yourself up, but do take a minute to check out our guide to making your brown bag lunches more appealing.